Meet the Romans with Mary Beard (2012)
⭐ 7.51 seasonsDocumentary
Professor Mary Beard looks beyond the stories of emperors, armies, guts and gore to meet the everyday people at the heart of Ancient Rome's vast empire.
📺 Seasons & Episodes
Miniseries3 episodes
1. All Roads Lead to Rome
⏱ 60 minProf Mary Beard takes the Via Appia to Rome to show the lives of ordinary citizens in imperial times.
2. Streetlife
⏱ 60 minMary heads into the streets to discover the dirt, crime, sex, and slum conditions in the world's first high-rise city. Oddly enough, the poorer you were, the higher you lived, with little space, light, or sanitation.
3. Behind Closed Doors
⏱ 60 minTo learn about their family life, Beard looks at the thousands of tombstones of ordinary Romans, their children and slaves.
